Join us to celebrate women in cricket and women’s sport history at these events at the MCC Library, MCG, 28th January, 2025 Women in cricket history panel In the lead up to the historic Women’s Ashes Test at the MCG, we are hosting two great events on 28 January 2025 with our great friends at …
Kate Kirby looks into the history of the Lindy Award that, despite being awarded to the best ‘sportsmen’ of the year was at times won by women. In Australia, the bestowing of honours on sportspeople is a tradition—connecting national identity with a history of sport and play. In 2022, the Australian Institute of Sport announced …
The Siren Spotlight series launched with a brilliant longread from baseball superstar Amy McCann about the long and fascinating history of women’s baseball in Australia. Long before the All American Girls Professional Baseball League catapulted women’s baseball into popular culture in the 1940s, Australia was busy crafting leagues of their own all over the country. …
Kirby Fenwick has been back in the archives and the history books to collate this list of five trailblazing women from the history of cricket. Australian cricket is brimming with trailblazing women. As players, administrators and journalists, these pioneers worked hard to build the foundations (and in some cases, the actual grounds) that today’s stars play …
The Paralympics are filled with memorable moments—stories of records broken and medals won. We’ve dived into the history books and collected five such stories. The Paralympics may have a slightly shorter history than the Olympics, but that history is still jam packed with incredible feats of strength and speed, and plenty of records broken …